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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Madame Paulette was Paris's queen of milliners. Born in 1900, this famed headwear designer learned her trade between the wars, and by the 40s and 50s her hats crowned the heads of everyone who was anyone in Paris, and were increasingly sought by the rich and famous around the world. Film stars such as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Audrey Hepburn were some of her most ardent fans, as well as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: The physical model is an important communication tool for architects. Although the proliferation of CAD programmes has enabled the creation of increasingly complex computer models and virtual environments, there is also a growing need to address the three-dimensional qualities of architecture that may be lost when using such media. This book focuses on the inspiring possibilities for modelling…

Скачать книгу (размер 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 110) Аннотация: For her fifth book with Steidl, Mona Kuhn has entered the heart of the American desert and returned with a sequence of pictures that is seductive, enigmatic and a little unsettling. Private proposes a world in which concrete reality and the imaginary are one. Plants and animals on the edge of survival, sun-drenched landscapes and wind-sculpted earth are intercut with a series of nudes that push…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: From land art and earthworks in the 1960s to conceptual art of the new millennium, ecology-focused art has been a prominent genre in the art world for decades. This book offers a look into the recent explosion in contemporary art that deals directly with nature, the environment, climate change, and ecology. Organized into six thematic chapters, Art & Ecology Now moves through the various levels…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Today's menswear designers must understand the history of fashion to come up with new and innovative ideas. Filled with inspiration for designers and students alike, The Fashion Resource Book: Men is a collection of research essential to the study of men's fashion. The book is divided into three sections, each structured as a series of detailed case studies. The first section investigates the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Henri Cartier-Bresson's work embraced art, politics, revolution, and war. But more powerful than any of these overarching themes was his evident concern for the human individual at every social level. This lavishly illustrated monograph — published to accompany France's first major retrospective since the photographer's death in 2004 — traces Cartier-Bresson's development as a photographer,…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In 1960, after an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided to remove himself from the tension and depression of that work. He received an assignment to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then travelled to London on commission for Queen magazine. Published by Jocelyn Stevens,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Based on 5 years of insights from blogging, 'The Pop-Up City' blog presents this book on creative ideas for cities in a fluid world. The authors Jeroen Beekmans and Joop de Boer are the brains and hearts of the Amsterdam-based blog that showcases eye-opening ideas, concepts and trends that make a change in the city of today and tomorrow. On a daily basis, the authors have written stories about…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Because of the importance of Robert Frank's The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United States; and because he made very different kinds of pictures when he returned to still photography in the 1970s, most of Frank's American work of the 1950s is poorly known. This book, based on the important Frank collection at the Cantor Arts Center at…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This authoritative survey of the work of Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese presents masterfully reproduced works accompanied by an astute text by Alessandra Zamperini.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Rubens is undoubtedly the most influential Flemish painter. Through reproductions in print, his compositions had an immense impact, even during his lifetime. Himself indebted to Titian, Rubens became a role model to Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Velazquez, and influenced artists well beyond his time, including figures such as Cezanne, Picasso, Bacon and Freud. This stunning new volume explores Rubens'…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 404) Аннотация: Francisco Goya has been widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, and an astute observer of the human condition in all its complexity. The many-layered and shifting meanings of his work have made him one of the most studied artists in the world. Few, however, have made the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: This monograph is the definitive guide to the career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. From his earliest work at Harper's Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Patrick Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 100 Ways to Create an Ad is an accessible introduction to creative advertising techniques. Featuring 100 spreads detailing concepts such as the 'Reveal' and the 'Mash-up', it presents the key methods of devising print, television, radio, direct, and online ideas. The process of creating an ad can be divided into three steps: planning; concept creation; crafting. This book provides a…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Racing Driver is a thrill-a-minute training course that shows children how the worlds fastest racing cars are driven. The book is divided into three types of spread that encourage the child to imagine speeding around the track and becoming a racing champion. Driving school looks at the engineering and science of driving. On the track puts the child behind the wheel in a variety of high-speed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This comprehensive survey of optical illusions includes an astonishing range of images from ancient times to the present. Covering illusions of depth, inversions, vibration effects, ambiguous figures, camouflage, anamorphic art, tessellations and other brain-teasing illusions, it presents examples from psychology, the popular press, the decorative arts, contemporary street art and the fine arts.…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: These enchanting books introduce children to four perennially popular subjects: animals, letters, numbers and toys. Each book features thirty engaging games with activities involving colouring, recognition, classification, counting, searching and more, as well as one double spread of stickers. This beautifully designed collection will both educate and entertain all children of three and over.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A national pantheon of the greatest names in British history and culture, the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery contains more than 11,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper and over a quarter of a million photographs. There are kings and queens, courtiers and courtesans, politicians and poets, soldiers and scientists, artists and writers, philosophers and film stars individuals…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: These enchanting books introduce children to four perennially popular subjects: animals, letters, numbers and toys. Each book features thirty engaging games with activities involving colouring, recognition, classification, counting, searching and more, as well as one double spread of stickers. This beautifully designed collection will both educate and entertain all children of three and over.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Design touches every aspect of our lives and has become one of the most exciting and fast-moving industries, enlivening businesses, stimulating economies and solving humanitys most pressing problems. Increasingly connected to the developments in technology, design has also become one of the most dynamic areas of exploration, with design schools and professions exploding across the globe. It is…